Global Online Harms Webinar Series: Vaccine Hesitancy

As we move toward widely distributing COVID vaccines, it is crucial that public health experts develop effective strategies for communicating fact-based messages to combat anti-vaccine sentiment and increase vaccine uptake worldwide. 

Panelists included: 

• Heidi J. Larson, professor of Anthropology, Risk, and Decision Science; founding director, The Vaccine Confidence Project at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
• Stephen B. Thomas, director, Maryland Center for Health Equity
• AbdelHalim AbdAllah, Crisis Communication Officer, WHO Regional Office for Africa
• Moderator- David Broniatowski, Associate Director, Institute for Data, Democracy & Politics